Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seven months before he was caught, Varenik, code-named GTFITNESS, provided American intelligence with detailed information about 170 agents and operations of the KGB and the GRU (the Soviet military intelligence arm). He tipped off the cia that the Soviets had a plan to create anti-German sentiment in the U.S. by planting explosives in bars and restaurants frequented in Germany by American service members (Varenik's role in the KGB scheme was to find places where the explosives could be hidden). "Gennadi," says one insider, "saved American lives...
...operational funds for personal expenses, and an auditor was expected shortly from Moscow. Moreover, he owed another $3,500 to colleagues. His second daughter had just been born, but he was flat broke and couldn't even pay his rent. Worst of all, Varenik had learned that a German he had recruited to spy for the U.S.S.R. was in fact a double agent working for German intelligence. Could the CIA, he asked, help fake a recruitment that would put him in the good graces...
...pseudonym was Lothar, he said, and he was a Directorate "S" staff member serving as a case officer for "illegals," Soviet agents working in Germany who did not have diplomatic covers and so were not protected by diplomatic immunity. In addition, he attempted to recruit agents, mostly among German university students and members of the German peace movement. Varenik described the discord and tensions in the local kgb station and decried the petty politicking and corruption. He was clearly fed up with the existing Soviet system, and he was repelled by the idea of bombing Americans. He was not primarily...
...agents at hotels and later at a CIA safe house. If he wanted to meet, he would make a chalk mark on a utility pole that was on his route home from the TASS office. The CIA paid him $3,000 a month. He also received small gifts-a German encyclopedia, for example. He was prolific: his reports fill four drawers in a CIA safe. He described "false flag" operations in which KGB agents recruited Germans while pretending to be South Africans or Israelis...
Twenty-one top executives of the bankrupted Barings P.L.C. were fired by the company's new owners. ING Group, a Dutch company, determined that the Barings employees were either directly or indirectly responsible for overseeing the derivatives debacle that broke the British bank in February. Meanwhile, German authorities received more than 1,000 pages of documents from Singapore, which is requesting former Barings trader Nicholas Leeson's extradition to face charges of forgery...